Non-refillable bottle.



No. 662,945. Patented DBO. 4, I900.

A. L. KENDRICK & w. .1. WILEY.

NON-BEFILLABILE BOTTLE.

(Application filed Jan. 22, 1900.

(No Model.)

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ATTOR tlNiTED ST TES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM L. KFNDRICK, OF SOUTH NORWALK, AND WILLIAM J. WILEY, OF DANBURY,CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO HARRY MOLACHLAN, OF DANBURY,CONNECTICUT.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 662,945, datedDecember 4, 1900. Application filed January 22. 1900. Serial No. 2,366.(No model.)

T0 or whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, ABRAHAM L. KEN- DRIOK, residing at South Norwalk,and WIL- LIAM J. WILEY, residing at Danbury,Fairfield county,Connecticut, citizens of the United States,have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles; and

we dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertaius to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to certain improvements in non-refillable bottles,and has for its object to provide a bottle into which after the contentshave been introduced the cork may be readily inserted, while such corkcannot be thereafter removed without detection.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this application,Figure l is a broken elevation of ourimprovement; Fig.2,a brokensectional elevation of the same; Fig. 3, a plan of the top of thebottle, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the cap or hood.

Similar numbers of reference denote like parts in the several figures ofthe drawings.

1 is any suitable bottle whose neck is surmounted by a hood 2, closed atthe top and sides and open at the ends. The distance between the sidesis equal to the inside diameter of the neck of the bottle, while on theinside of such neck, near the bottom thereof, is formed a shoulder orledge 3.

4 is a perforation in the top of the hood.

The cork 5 is introduced and pushed within the hood from one sidethereof until such cork-is immediately above the mouth of the bottle,and then any suitable rod or other device is introduced through theperforation 4 and driven against the cork to force the latter down intothe neck of the bottle against this shoulder or ledge 3, as shown atFig. 2.

The hood and bottle are of course made of fragile material, and it willbe clear that the cork cannot be removed until the hood is first broken,and therefore it will be clear that the cork cannot be removed withoutready detection.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A non-refillable bottle whose mouth is surmounted by a perforatedhood closed at the top and sides and open at the ends, substantially asset forth.

2. A non-refillable bottle provided with a shoulder on the inside of itsneck and having its mouth surmounted by a perforated hood closed at thetop and sides and open at the ends, whereby the cork may be introducedthrough one of said ends and depressed against said shoulder by asuitable tool introduced through the perforated hood, substantially asset forth.

In testimony whereof we afiiX our signatures each in the presence of twowitnesses.

ABRAHAM L. KENDRICK. \VILLIAM J. WILEY.

Witnesses as to the signature of Abraham L. Kendrick:

MARILDA KEELER, MARTHA HENDRICKS,

Witnesses as to the signature of William J. Wiley:

GRANVILLE WHITTLESEY, NORMAN C. BEERS,

